Liberal peace transitions : between statebuilding and peacebuilding

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Liberal peace transitions : between statebuilding and peacebuilding

Oliver P. Richmond and Jason Franks

Edinburgh University Press, c2009

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-224) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book examines the nature of 'liberal peace': the common aim of the international community's approach to post-conflict statebuilding. Adopting a particularly critical stance on this one-size-fits-all paradigm, it explores the process by breaking down liberal peace theory into its constituent parts: democratisation, free market reform and development, human rights, civil society, and the rule of law. Readers are provided with critically and theoretically informed empirical access to the 'technology' of the liberal peacebuilding process, particularly in regard to Cambodia, Kosovo, East Timor, Bosnia and the Middle East. Key Features *critically interrogates the theory, experience, and current outcomes of liberal peacebuilding *includes five empirically-informed case studies: Cambodia, Kosovo, East Timor, Bosnia and the Middle East *focuses on the key institutional aspects of liberal peacebuilding and key international actors *assesses the local outcomes of liberal peacebuilding

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: A Framework to Assess Liberal Peace Transitions
  • 1. Cambodia: Liberal Hubris and Virtual Peace
  • 2. Bosnia: Between Partition and Pluralism
  • 3. Liberal Peace in East Timor: The Emperors' New Clothes?
  • 4. Co-opting the Liberal Peace: Untying the Gordian Knot in Kosovo
  • 5. Building/ Rejecting the Liberal Peace: State Consolidation and Liberal Failure in the Middle East
  • Conclusion: Evaluating the Achievements of the Liberal Peace and Revitalising a Virtual Peace
  • Bibliography.

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  • NCID
    BA91866704
  • ISBN
    • 9780748638765
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Edinburgh
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 230 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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